Shell.



Patented Mar. 11, 1919.

Clftozmu A. E. MATTEUS.

SHELL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 6. 19-1a.

AUGUST E. MATTEUS, 0F GILBY, ALBERTA, CANADA.

SHELL.

Specification of Letters Batcnt. Patnijed Mar, 11 1919,

Application filed September 6, 1918. Serial No. 252,908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known ,that I, AUGUST E. MATTEUs, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at Gilby, in the Province of Alberta, Dominion ofCanada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shells, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a projectile for shot guns such as used bysportsmen; the purpose being to provide a shell having a great range ofpenetration fora given amount of explosive and which will concentratethe shot or bullets and prevent the scattering of the same to such anextent as to prevent stopping the game by a well directed shot.

In the ordinary shell as generally provided for a fire arm used bysportsmen, the shot or bullets are practically liberated the instantthey leave the muzzle of the gun and each shot or bullet is subjected toindividual air resistance which retards the range thereof. Moreover, theshot or pel lets begin to spread and scatter and as a result the spacecovered is too great and frequently the game is lost because only a fewof the shot or bullets reach the mark and are insufficient to bring thegame to earth.

In accordance with the present invention the shot or bullets areinclosed in a casingwhich travels with the shot or bullets in mass, butwhich casing gradually releases the shot or bullets as the missiletravels after being projected from the gun or fire arm. As a result theshot or bullets have a longer range of travel and are concentrated andprevented from scattering beyond the useful zone so that the game ismore surely brought to earth.

The drawing illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention,however, it is to be understood that in adapting the same. to meetdifferent conditions, various changes in the form, proportion, and minordetails of construction may be resorted to without departing from thenature of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a shell for a shot gun embodying theinvention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the casing, which receivesthe shot or bullets.

Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the casing and shot showingthe relation of the parts while the same are in flight.

Corresponding and like parts in the several views of the drawing arereferred-to in the following description and indicated in the severalviews of the drawing by shot being separated by interposed wads orelements 4 in a manner well understood.

In accordance with the present invention the shot or bullets 3 areinclosed within a casing 6 which may be of any construction or material,the purpose of the casing being to retain the shot or bullets 3 in amass during the initial travel of the missile after leaving the muzzleof the gun. The casing 6 may be of any light and cheap material and isusually of metal. A jacket 7 envelops the casing 6 and is usually ofparaflin so as to prevent injury to the bore of the gun and tofacilitate the traveling of the missile when the gun is fired. The shotor bullets 3 are placed within the casing 6 and are retained therein inany manner as by means of the wad 5.

Whena shell or projectile embodying the I invention is fired, the casinthe shot or bullets 3 is pro ected and the casing and shot traveltogether, .but at different relative speeds, this being due to the factthat the casing 6 is light and is subjected to greater air resistancethan the in- 6 containing weight of the parts, hence the heavier thecasing 6, the longer is its distance of travel with the inclosed shot orbullets. It is pro-v posed, therefore, to vary the weight of the casing6 and this is accomplished by adding weight 8 thereto, the same beingpreferably applied to the end of the casing. Obviously the relative.weight may be determined by experiment and the amount of the weight 8 tobe added after being determined will remain fixed for'composite missilesor projectiles of a given size.

It should be remembered that in the ordinary shell, each shot or bullet3 is subjected to air resistance and as a result the range or path oftravel is not as great as would be the case if this resistance wasmodified. In accordance with the present invention the shot or bulletsare confined,

hence the resistance to the travel of the mis-v sile or proJect1le as awhole 1s far less than if each shot or bullet were exposed and subjectedto resistance. It follows, therefore, that a shell constructed inaccordance with the invention has a greater range or and arrangement andcombination of parts,

materials, dimensions, et cetera, as may prove expedient and fall withinthe scope of the appended claims.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

- 1. A composite muzzle comprising a casing, a weight added to thecasing to govern its flight and shot or bullets inclosed within thecasing and adapted to gradually leave the same when the missile is inflight.

2. A projectile, comprising a main casing, a supplemental casing withinthe main casing and separable therefrom and closed at its rear end andopen at its front end, shot within the supplemental casing, a wadclosing the front end of thesupplemental casing to retain the shottherein and hold it in place within the main casing, and a weightattached to the rear end of the supplemental casing to govern its flightand the separation of the shot therefrom.

In testimony whereof I, A. E. MA'rrEUs, afiix my signature in presenceof two Witnesses.

AUGUST E. MATTEUS.

Witnesses:

ANNA M. POSTI, HUGO J Posrr.

